All Alan Watts Quotes
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. Dance
- A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world… All
- Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality? Beyond
- Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. Awareness
- That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in… Alice
- Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way... Better
- How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous… All
- To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it,… Finely
- Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Enjoyment
- Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent… Among
- A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. Granted
- You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping. Boo
- To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And… All
- The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond… Belongs
- There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it. Grow
- Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and… Any
- What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead… Among
- You can't have something without nothing. Funny
- It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into… Afraid
- People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Always Preparing